Producer/director Richard Attenborough's epic film Cry Freeom is based on a true story set in the cauldron of apartheid South Africa. There, during the 1970s, an extraordinary friendship was forged. Steve Biko was young, black, charismatic, and a political activist. Donald Woods was white, affluent, and the editor of an influential newspaper. Cry Freedom is their story and the story of their two families, told against the backdrop of a turbulent but beautiful land rich in everything but common humanity. Attenborough's introduction describes how the film came to be made. He then tells its story in brilliant coloured stills with extended captions...